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Auction 22 22 Jun 2021
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Kyzikos. Circa 550-500 BC. Stater (Electrum, 19 mm, 15.99 g). Winged mythological creature (with the body of a man and the head of a wolf-like animal with a boar's crest and tall, griffin-like ear) in the running-kneeling posture to left, his head to right, holding, in his left hand, a tunny by the tail. Rev. Quadripartite incuse square. BMFA 1457. Greenwell 57. Gulbenkian 617. SNG Paris 271. SNG von Aulock 1198. Von Fritze 123. Warren 1471. A fascinating mythological creature, well-struck on a broad flan. Good very fine.
Kyzikos. Circa 550-500 BC. Stater (Electrum, 19 mm, 15.99 g). Winged mythological creature (with the body of a man and the head of a wolf-like animal with a boar's crest and tall, griffin-like ear) in the running-kneeling posture to left, his head to right, holding, in his left hand, a tunny by the tail. Rev. Quadripartite incuse square. BMFA 1457. Greenwell 57. Gulbenkian 617. SNG Paris 271. SNG von Aulock 1198. Von Fritze 123. Warren 1471. A fascinating mythological creature, well-struck on a broad flan. Good very fine.